E. A. LITZKENSU*

To the People's Commissariat of Enlightenment, comrades Lunacharsky,
Pokrovsky, Litzkensu

I request that you provide me with the briefest possible answers — one or at most two pages in total — to certain questions so that I may present the relevant sections of my report to the Congress of Soviets more precisely and include some of the most indicative figures.

I request that you communicate to me, for my report to the Congress of Soviets, concise data that could characterize vividly the growth of aspiration toward enlightenment and certain successes in this field during 1921 (for example, the number of students, the number of village reading huts [izba-chitalni], the number of libraries, the number of university students, the number of technical educational institutions, etc.).

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

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Written December 17, 1921

First published in 1933

in Lenin Miscellany XXIII

Printed from the typewritten copy